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Maybe it’s time for a next generation of game consoles?

Xbox one X and PS4 Pro were both recently released. What do you have in mind for next the gen console(s)?

Both Xbox and PS are already using AMD-designed chips. Despite new versions are recently released, they both are still based on the previous generation AMD microarchitectures, i.e. Polaris GPU + Jaguar CPU.

This new AMD chips combine new generation GPU (Vega) and new generation CPU (Ryzen). Both are much better than what’s in the current generation consoles.

What benefits does this bring to the consumer beside specs?

Consumers dont care much for specs. If they did the Xbox One X would be flying off shelves.

Excellent point.

Yeah, this could be the main reason why we won’t have Ryzen consoles anytime soon :-(

And can they hit a $300 price point after factoring in the price of the case, the hard drive, the optical drive, the power supply, and everything else? At the same physical size? And the same noise level?

Looks like these embedded chips are either equivalent or very close to the recently released Raven Ridge PC APUs, Ryzen 3 2200G and Ryzen 5 2400G. They are offered for $100 and $170, respectively. Not that expensive.

Would be awesome if AMD released an AArch64 + Vega SoC for the next Nintendo Switch…

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